Tena Crews

About me

Stealth Consulting, LLC

Consultants: Tena B. Crews & Kelly Wilkinson

Our mission is to train business personnel and educators in the areas of:

1) providing content, whether for educational or informational purposes, in a blended or pure online environment;
2) assessment in online/e-learning;
3) additional areas as deemed necessary.

Interests

online learning, design and assessment

Activity

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Authoring Online Course

Chris, Yes, you are on the right track. Read what I responded to David. You two are thinking alike, yet you added time (not restraints) but constraints! Thank you.

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Authoring Online Course

David, These really do build upon each other. Determinine what you want the students to know may come more from a curriculum design element, but developing the course to facilitate that learning and meeting course objectives while providing content for a variety of learning styles is essential. Nice job.

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Variations of Evaluations

Robin, Can you elaborate on why you think these things would help you close the loop? Thanks!

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Variations of Evaluations

John, You are correct. I review tests and quizzes each time I give them. If many students miss a questions, I post the question and answers choices and ask students to discuss through a discussion formun/discussion board, which answer is correct. If they can defend their choice and by defending their choice another answer may be correct, I give them the credit. Then, I make sure I reword the question/answers better the next time if I use the same question at some point again. Thanks!

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Teaching Online Course

John, I just thought of one more comment. Remember also that best practices may differ a bit between instructors, students and course content. What works in one course may not work in another course. Knowing this in itself is a best practice. ;-) Thanks again.

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Teaching Online Course

John, The key words in your posting are "best practices." You are exactly right. Without best practices your syllabus would not be dynamic nor would the communication and scaffolding of learning occur. Keeping these factors in mind is important. Thank you.

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Authoring Online Course

Imroz, Structure and organization "set the stage" for your course and help students get organized themselves. Any time a student cannot find information, a test, an assignment, etc., bring forth frustration. Frustraion is something you want to avoid. The structure should include user-friendly navigation as you describe and allow for not only interaction with the instructor, but with each other. Nice job. Thank you.

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Authoring Online Course

John, An external reviewer (peer review) is an excellent topic to bring up. It is always nice to have "fresh eyes" when you are developing a course. Others can see if it seems logical and organized when you can't because you are "too close" to the course. I hope that makes sense. Also, ask students questions as you are teaching the course. Can you find what you need? Stop - Start - Continue --> What do you want me to stopd doing? What do you want me to start doing? What do you want me to continue to do. This… >>>

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Authoring Online Course

John, Knowing your audience is KEY! You are exactly right. Writing is important at all levels because you never know how "high" a student may go, but the type of writing or writing assignments will definitely vary. Thanks for your input.

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Authoring Online Course

John, Good point. Any suggestions or ideas you can share on how you would do this? Thanks!

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